Friday, June 15, 2018
REST Service Connection Pooling
Nice article about http client connection pool on micro service architecture
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Agile Teams in 2018
How can you create a team that is highly motivated, able to prioritize on its own and deliver the most important user value in a constant pace indefinitely?
The answer is - Practice AGILE.
I have been part of so many successful Agile teams over the past decade, learned and practiced many invaluable lessons throughout my career. Most recently I was part of an elaborative training with a highly effective team that practices these principles religiously.
These are the some of the most critical aspects to create a successful Agile team from my experience.
Unified Backlog
Keeping the single backlog of all activities is the number one priority. This includes business stories, tech items, even including all project mgmt, environment action items. These should be defined well so anyone in the team is able to work on it.
This reinforces the priority to the entire team. The transparency will enhance the trust in the process. The other aspect is to bring visibility to all non-business activities that need to take place to achieve an item in front of business folks.
Self-organizing teams
The team should be empowered to decide on the priority, methods and means to achieve the priority. As much as possible, external interferences should be reduced if could not be compeltely eliminated.
Team assessment
Anyone will obviously put forward his/her focus and efforts based on what is valued in the environment, on what basis performance is appreciated in the team. Unless we start valuing the collective achievements of the team, it will not translate into teams performance.
Individuals in the team should be able to trust each other. The common objectives should be repeatedly communicated to the team by the management. Instead of individual performance reviews, the peer reviews and overall team achievements should be considered for valuations.
This experience not only enhanced my trust in Agile but also gave me practical
handlers to follow Agile Manifesto Principles as much as possible even in a regulated bureaucratic environments.
The answer is - Practice AGILE.
I have been part of so many successful Agile teams over the past decade, learned and practiced many invaluable lessons throughout my career. Most recently I was part of an elaborative training with a highly effective team that practices these principles religiously.
These are the some of the most critical aspects to create a successful Agile team from my experience.
Unified Backlog
Keeping the single backlog of all activities is the number one priority. This includes business stories, tech items, even including all project mgmt, environment action items. These should be defined well so anyone in the team is able to work on it.
This reinforces the priority to the entire team. The transparency will enhance the trust in the process. The other aspect is to bring visibility to all non-business activities that need to take place to achieve an item in front of business folks.
Self-organizing teams
The team should be empowered to decide on the priority, methods and means to achieve the priority. As much as possible, external interferences should be reduced if could not be compeltely eliminated.
Team assessment
Anyone will obviously put forward his/her focus and efforts based on what is valued in the environment, on what basis performance is appreciated in the team. Unless we start valuing the collective achievements of the team, it will not translate into teams performance.
Individuals in the team should be able to trust each other. The common objectives should be repeatedly communicated to the team by the management. Instead of individual performance reviews, the peer reviews and overall team achievements should be considered for valuations.
This experience not only enhanced my trust in Agile but also gave me practical
handlers to follow Agile Manifesto Principles as much as possible even in a regulated bureaucratic environments.
Friday, June 1, 2018
ATEA Regional Conference - 2018
Over the memorial day long weekend, I attended a community based regional Entrepreneur Convention.
Great honor to meet some of the great minds and more over it turned out to be an wonderful opportunity to listen to their success stories directly from them.
It was a jam packed 12+ hours event with back to back talks of almost 15+ speakers. However, they did an amazing job of delivering their core message short and sweet due to time constraint.
The blog aims to bring the some of excerpts from the event.
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The most important thing to do is take your time to contemplate daily. Success will follow.
Assume your responsibility as custodian of the planet. This will bring best out of you.
Chandrika Tandon
The intersection point of 1) Things you are good at 2) Things you love to do 3) Things for which you are paid most is the sweet spot for your success.
Ram V Iyer. Founder Business Thinking Institute.
Do not afraid of fear. Fear is part of the process. It is okay to live with it.
Suuchi Ramesh. Founder Suuchi Inc
No longer companies with huge capital are driving the trends but the companies that create interface for supply & demand, manage the risk and trust are driving the treands and hence the economy. World is moving towards The Shared Economy.
Arun Sundararajan. Prof @ NYU
Security Token Offering (STO) are the new way of fund raising.
Atul Kunwar, CTO Tech Mahindra
Do not start a franchise before talking to both winners and losers who attempted the franchise in your market area.
Parthiban Jayaram
Personalized Medicine is the future.
Vasantha Kumar Ramasamy, Founder, CEO Care Centra
To recruit a great team, meet the candidate few times in different sittings. Anyone can sell you for the first 1 hour but only the smart ones can keep you interested even after 4-5 meetings.
Ashwin Bharath CIO Revature
To succeed in venture capital, Invest in someone who has "unfair advantage"
MV Subramanian. Co-Founder Future Focus. Angel Investor
Attention (no multi task), Generation (self directed), Emotion and Spacing (Repeat) are the pillars of adult learning.
Gopinathan C.P - Co-Founder 361 Degree Minds.
Disclaimer : As I don't have an habit of taking notes during the talks (I hate it like taking continuous video on the concert), I try to recollect from my memory and present here in my own words. These are my own interpretations and in no ways fame or defame the speakers.
Great honor to meet some of the great minds and more over it turned out to be an wonderful opportunity to listen to their success stories directly from them.
It was a jam packed 12+ hours event with back to back talks of almost 15+ speakers. However, they did an amazing job of delivering their core message short and sweet due to time constraint.
The blog aims to bring the some of excerpts from the event.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The most important thing to do is take your time to contemplate daily. Success will follow.
Assume your responsibility as custodian of the planet. This will bring best out of you.
Chandrika Tandon
The intersection point of 1) Things you are good at 2) Things you love to do 3) Things for which you are paid most is the sweet spot for your success.
Ram V Iyer. Founder Business Thinking Institute.
Do not afraid of fear. Fear is part of the process. It is okay to live with it.
Suuchi Ramesh. Founder Suuchi Inc
No longer companies with huge capital are driving the trends but the companies that create interface for supply & demand, manage the risk and trust are driving the treands and hence the economy. World is moving towards The Shared Economy.
Arun Sundararajan. Prof @ NYU
Security Token Offering (STO) are the new way of fund raising.
Atul Kunwar, CTO Tech Mahindra
Do not start a franchise before talking to both winners and losers who attempted the franchise in your market area.
Parthiban Jayaram
Personalized Medicine is the future.
Vasantha Kumar Ramasamy, Founder, CEO Care Centra
To recruit a great team, meet the candidate few times in different sittings. Anyone can sell you for the first 1 hour but only the smart ones can keep you interested even after 4-5 meetings.
Ashwin Bharath CIO Revature
To succeed in venture capital, Invest in someone who has "unfair advantage"
MV Subramanian. Co-Founder Future Focus. Angel Investor
Attention (no multi task), Generation (self directed), Emotion and Spacing (Repeat) are the pillars of adult learning.
Gopinathan C.P - Co-Founder 361 Degree Minds.
Disclaimer : As I don't have an habit of taking notes during the talks (I hate it like taking continuous video on the concert), I try to recollect from my memory and present here in my own words. These are my own interpretations and in no ways fame or defame the speakers.
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